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Typewriter – An Indian horror series that actually is scary. It had been a really long time since I watched an Indian production that was actually affecting its scary scenes. And before I watched Typewriter, I used to think that Indian productions are not scary because of their overuse of the cliched scenes that were…

Climax says it all Gulabo Sitabo movie is amongst those multi-layered films that look simple on the surface but are so complex on the inside that the film-makers need to dumb it down for the audience in the climactic sequences. The final scene Gulabo Sitabo and the few shots right before the titles roll basically…

Good actors undermined by gaudy visuals and underresearched facts An esteemed judge retires and turns into the angel of justice responsible for the disappearances of criminals he had acquitted due to lack of evidence. Though this premise of One Day: Justice Delivered sounds like an intriguing thriller written by Sydney Sheldon, the movie is actually…

Choked – Paisa Bolta Hai is a story of a woman suffering prolonged Post Traumatic Disorder (PTSD) and about how her psychological barriers impact her life, career, relationship choices. Demonetisation is simply an element of storytelling used by the Choked’s writer Nihit Bhave to build a climactic situation for the character foray into a journey…

Despite the fabulously written characters, the beautiful mansion of Kolkata and the brilliance of all the actors, Bulbbul remains a period drama fairy tale that unfortunately went wrong in many aspects. Unclear Genre Most of the Bollywood movies of recent times do not strictly adhere to any specific genre. They are mostly an amalgamation of…

Betaal – Good plot and characters with very less screen time Shah Rukh Khan’s Red Chillies Entertainment production Betaal series began making headlines even before it was released as a Marathi filmmaker claimed copyright infringement. Though Marathi v/s Hindi film industry is a real traffic-puller for my blog, I would focus currently on its unprejudiced…

I am a writer, entertainment blogger and a small-time actor myself and just like many of you, even I was excruciatingly pained by the sad demise of Sushant Singh Rajput. Sushant was unarguably a boon for Bollywood who could change the tides in the industry. However, while every person even remotely related to the field…

For the past month, I have been experiencing a philosophy driven emotional unease because of an internal conflict relating my feelings about the Ram Mandir Pran Pratishtha ceremony. The internal conflict arose out of my belief that if I feel happy about the ceremony, then I can not call myself a constitutionalist (someone who doesn’t…

I am someone who sucked at gaming ever since I was a child. Being a 90’s kid, I have played arcade games like Contra and Mario on archaic gaming consoles (at my neighbour’s place because my father thought that was a luxury a school-going kid should not have). I experienced the real-time journey of games…

Netflix series Betaal produced by Shah Rukh Khan’s Red Chillies Entertainment recently got into a short-lived but serious controversy after two Marathi screenwriters pulled them into the court with claims that that the series ‘Betaal’ was copied from their original Marathi film script written by them titled ‘Vetaal’. Here is a gist of the court…